Improvement in bee-hives



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSIAH BARNES AND WILLIAM BARNES, 0F KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT 1N BEE-Hives.'

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,973, dated April 21, 1874; application led March 5, 1874.

To all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J osIAn BARNES and WILLIAM BARNEs, of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved BeeHive; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in whichv Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevation; Fig. 2, a front elevation, partly broken away.

The invention relates to that class of beehives provided with main and auxiliary or surplus honey-frames 5 and consists in improving said hives, as hereinafter fully described, and subsequently pointed out in the claims.

A represents a hive-box, having the front door a and the back door al. B are the main honey-frames, spaced by the lateral eyes or l projections b, and pivoted against the back board or riser C of a reticulated or wire-frame false bottom, D. The bottom D extends out in front to form the platform D', has a out-out,77 d, for the bee-entrance, and receives the crosspiece E, the platform and bottom being each recessed to form the inclined moth-avenues F F, that have below them tubular continuations ff. Over the bee and moth entrances are arranged slides all j", to admit of graduating the size of apertures and of closing them. G G are the rails on which bottom D slides, and II H strips placed thereover on the sides of box A, to prevent the bees from waxing between the slide D and the sides of hive. At the rear end of slide-bottom D is subjacently located a scraper, I, that tits between the rails G G, and close to the case-bottom a2. The droppings of the bees upon this bottom are, therefore, removed whenever the honey-frames are drawn out on the slide. d2 is a hinged and reticulated gate, which closes the front of airchamber formed'between the false and true bottoms. The air, passing through the reticulations of this gate, and through those of false bottom D, nds its way through ll parts of the hive, and thus preserves the health of the bees. J is a sliding case, open at top and bottom, and supported near the upper part of box A, over the main honey-frames, and upon eyes or side projections K, while L is a re; movable plate or board, that may separate the small or surplus honey-frames M from the main ones B when so desired. The honeyframes M have extension ends m m, that rest upon the sides of case J and thus suspend them on the inside of said case.

By this construction and arrangement oi' the essential parts of `a bee-hive, great con= venience is attained for its inspection and examination, while the health of the bees and the destruction of the moths are both effectually secured. v

Having thus described our` invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A false bottom, D, having the main honey-frames attached to a riser thereof, and movable in and out on rails G G, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The scraper I, attached to the tear end of and combined with a reticulated false bota tom, D, that slides in and out over the true bottom a2 of the hivebox, as and for the purpose speciiied.

3. The strips H H, arranged over the edges of slide D, to prevent thewaxing of joint between slide and box by the bees, as described.

4. The combination, with the main honeyframes in a hivebox, of the superposed case J `for surplus honey-frames, made open at top and bottom, and resting on small side projections K, as and for the purpose speciied.

JosIAH EAENEs. WILLIAM EAENEs.

AWitnesses to J osIAII BARNEs signature:

-LEwIs HANBAGK, T. K. JOHNSTON. Y Witnesses to WM. BARNEs signature:

LENOIR CHURCH, Goss. GUI/IPERTZ.y 

